As a potential U.S. Treasury secretary, Robert Lighthizer has more than trade policy to revolutionize.

A critical look at the past and present of industrial policy shows that its recent popularity is not only misguided, but is likely to have negative economic and geopolitical consequences for the Unit…

Building a durable consensus for U.S. economic leadership requires listening to what Americans think. The first stop in the RealEcon team's listening tour was Florida.

Economists who want to compare the living standards of countries often use GDP, but the calculation and usefulness of the measurement remains controversial.

With India's development continuing to gain steam, one of the biggest challenges will be to avoid the mistake that others have made when they failed to recognize their newly acquired global systemic …

Once the region’s no-frills, free-market poster child, Chile needs more government spending, not less, to sustain its growth trajectory.